Watch Star Wars: Rogue One Teaser TrailerPosted by Wilson Morales
April 19, 2015
Over at Star Wars Celebration, producer Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm’s vice president of development Kiri Hart, and director Gareth Edwards showed a teaser trailer for the first Star Wars anthology film Star Wars: Rogue One.
Star Wars: Rogue One, starring Oscar nominated actress Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) as a rebel soldier, centers on a rogue band of resistance fighters who unite to steal the Death Star plans and bring new hope to the galaxy.
The cast also includes Diego Luna, who was featured in 2008’s Oscar-winning “Milk” and the critically acclaimed “Killing Them Softly”; Ben Mendelsohn, recently nominated for an Emmy® for his leading role in “Bloodline” and co-starring in the upcoming “Mississippi Grind”; Donnie Yen, Hong Kong action star and martial artist who starred in “Ip Man” and “Blade II”; Jiang Wen, who co-wrote, produced , directed and starred in the award-winning “Let the Bullets Fly” and “Devils on the Doorstep”; Forest Whitaker, recently featured in the critically-acclaimed Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” and winner of an Academy Award® for his leading role in 2006’s “The Last King of Scotland; Mads Mikkelsen, who starred in “The Hunt” and was the memorable villain from 2006’s “Casino Royale”; Alan Tudyk, who plays a performance-capture character in “Rogue One,” stars in the soon-to-be-released “Con Man” series and “Trumbo,” which releases this November; and Riz Ahmed, who was recently featured in “Nightcrawler” and starred in the BAFTA-winning film “Four Lions.”
Edwards also revealed that Rogue One takes place between episodes 3 and 4, in a time when the Jedi is all but extinct and the fate of the galaxy lies in the hands of a group of heroes without magical powers. Star Wars: Rogue One is set to hit theaters in December 2016.
Most recently (Dec. 16) the cast of Rogue One attended the London Premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Also Donnie Yen appeared at the Shanghai premiere.
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